Who Are The Top 10 Scorers In The NBA?

The NBA season is in full swing and we’re starting to see which players are rising to the top of the scoring charts. So far, the top 10 scorers in the NBA are:

1. James Harden
2. Giannis Antetokounmpo
3. Paul George
4. Damian Lillard
5. Joel Embiid
6. Russell Westbrook
7. Kyrie Irving
8. Kemba Walker
9. Kawhi Leonard
10

LeBron James

LeBron James is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is widely considered to be one of the greatest basketball players in NBA history.

James has appeared in fifteen NBA All-Star Games (2004–2018), eleven All-NBA First Teams, and five NBA All-Defensive First Teams. He has also been voted onto various annual NBA All-Star and All-NBA Teams a record thirteen times. He is the all-time leader in points scored, field goals made, and minutes played in NBA history.

In 2010, he won his first NBA championship with the Miami Heat. In 2012 and 2013, he led the Heat to consecutive championships, winning back-to-back Finals MVPs along the way. Upon returning to Cleveland in 2014, James led the Cavaliers to their first Finals appearance since 2007, where they lost to the Golden State Warriors in six games. In 2016, he engineered one of the greatest comebacks in NBA Finals history as the Cavaliers came back from a 3–1 deficit to defeat the Warriors and win Cleveland’s first major professional sports championship since 1964.

In 2018, James signed with the Lakers. In his first season with Los Angeles, he led them to their sixth Finals appearance after a 50–32 regular season record.

Kevin Durant

Born Kevin Wayne Durant on September 29, 1988, in Washington, D.C., Kevin Durant is a professional basketball player who was named the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2008. He helped lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to the NBA Finals in 2012. As a free agent in 2016, he joined the Golden State Warriors. Durant was named the NBA Finals MVP when the Warriors won the championship in 2017.

James Harden

James Harden is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Arizona State, where he was named a consensus All-American and Pac-10 Player of the Year in 2009. He was selected with the third overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft by the Oklahoma City Thunder. In 2012, he was named NBA Sixth Man of the Year with the Thunder and helped them reach the NBA Finals.

Russell Westbrook

Russell Westbrook is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association. He is a nine-time NBA All-Star, and an eight-time All-NBA Team member. He was the league MVP in 2017, and has led the league in scoring three times and assists four times. Westbrook has also been selected to eleven All-Defensive Teams.

Anthony Davis

Anthony Davis is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He plays center and power forward. Davis was selected first overall in the 2012 NBA draft by the New Orleans Pelicans, is a five-time NBA All-Star, and has been named to three All-NBA First Teams and three NBA All-Defensive Teams. He also won an Olympic gold medal as a member of Team USA in the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Damian Lillard

Damian Lillard is an American professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a six-time NBA All-Star and a two-time All-NBA Team member. Lillard was selected by Portland with the sixth overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft. He played college basketball for the Weber State Wildcats, earning third-team All-American honors in his only season of eligibility.

In July 2019, he signed a supermax contract extension with Portland, keeping him with the team through the 2025–26 season. As of January 3, 2021, Lillard is ranked tenth in the NBA in scoring, with an average of 26.9 points per game.

Kyrie Irving

Kyrie Andrew Irving is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was named NBA Rookie of the Year after being selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the first overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft. Kyrie Irving was born on March 23, 1992, in Melbourne, Australia, to Drederick and Elizabeth Irving. His mother is African-American and his father, who is of African-American and Danish descent, played college basketball at Boston University. Kyrie has an older sister, Asia, and a younger sister, London. When he was two years old, his family moved from Australia to West Orange, New Jersey. Kyrie attended Montclair Kimberley Academy in New Jersey and St. Patrick High School in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He played AAU basketball for the Road Runners of Newark.

Joel Embiid

Joel Hans Embiid is a Cameroonian professional basketball player for the Philadelphia
76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After a stellar high school career
where he was named Mr. Basketball of Kansas in 2013, he briefly played college
basketball for the University of Kansas. Although projected to be a top pick in the 2014
NBA draft, Embiid missed his entire freshman season as a result of a right foot injury that
required surgery. This led to him being drafted third overall by the Sixers in the 2014 NBA
draft. He then missed significant time over his first four seasons due to injuries to his right
foot and left knee. He was selected to the NBA All-Star team for the first time in 2018, and
was named to the All-NBA Second Team that same year.

Karl-Anthony Towns

Karl-Anthony Towns, who plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves, is the tenth highest scorer in the NBA. As of the 2019-2020 season, he has amassed a total of 18,315 points. He is a two-time All-Star and was named the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2016.

Devin Booker

Devin Booker is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted 13th overall by the Suns in the 2015 NBA draft. Booker played one season of college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats before declare for the draft. He is known for his scoring ability, and he holds several Suns franchise records. As a teenager in high school, he was named a McDonald’s All-American.

Booker was born in 1996 in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Veronica Gutiérrez and Melvin Booker. His parents met each other while attending the University of Missouri. His mother was a volleyball player and his father was a basketball player. His parents divorced when he was four years old, and he moved with his mother to Moss Point, Mississippi. His mother later remarried Richard Massie, and Booker has two stepbrothers: Davon Wade and Danyan Wade. Growing up, he idolized Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan.